A Model for Evaluation of Disaster Management

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (S1) ◽  
pp. 30-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund M. Ricci
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Technical Capability ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Relief Efforts

Our ability to manage disaster relief activities at regional, national or international levels of socio-political organization has, according to many analysts, not kept pace with the knowledge and technical capability presently available to contend with disasters. In a report released in 1977 a panel of experts assembled by the United Nations Association characterized disaster relief efforts as being routinely mismanaged. For example, the panel described what has been considered one of the better organized disaster relief efforts (the 1976 earthquake in Guatamala) in the following way.

Risk Reduction in Natural Disaster Management through Information Systems

2015 ◽  
pp. 79-107
Author(s):  
Guido Schryen ◽  
Felix Wex
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Natural Disaster Management

Natural disasters, including earthquakes, Tsunamis, floods, hurricanes, and volcanic eruptions, have caused tremendous harm and continue to threaten millions of humans and various infrastructure capabilities each year. In their efforts to take countermeasures against the threats posed by future natural disasters, the United Nations formulated the “Hyogo Framework for Action”, which aims at assessing and reducing risk. This framework and a global review of disaster reduction initiatives of the United Nations acknowledge the need for information systems research contributions in addressing major challenges of natural disaster management. In this paper, the authors provide a review of the literature with regard to how information systems research has addressed risk assessment and reduction in natural disaster management. Based on the review the authors identify research gaps that are centered around the need for acquiring general knowledge on how to design IS artifacts for risk assessment and reduction. In order to close these gaps in further research, the authors develop a research agenda that follows the IS design science paradigm.

Instrumental Internationalism: The American Origins of the United Nations, 1940–3

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Wertheim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Fast Moving ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
American Power ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Indispensable Tool

Why did the United States want to create the United Nations Organization, or any international political organization with universal membership? This question has received superficial historiographical attention, despite ample scrutiny of the conferences that directly established the UN in 1944 and 1945. The answer lies earlier in the war, from 1940 to 1942, when, under the pressure of fast-moving events, American officials and intellectuals decided their country must not only enter the war but also lead the world long afterwards. International political organization gained popularity – first among unofficial postwar planners in 1941 and then among State Department planners in 1942 – because it appeared to be an indispensable tool for implementing postwar US world leadership, for projecting and in no way constraining American power. US officials believed the new organization would legitimate world leadership in the eyes of the American public by symbolizing the culmination of prior internationalist efforts to end power politics, even as they based the design of the UN on a thoroughgoing critique of the League, precisely for assuming that power politics could be transcended.

Further on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency: Refugees from Objectivity

1971 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 950-952 ◽  
Author(s):  
David P. Forsythe
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Political Judgment ◽  
Low Level ◽  
The Future ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
High Level

Amos Perlmutter has raised an interesting series of points in his commentary on my recent article concerning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). As I understand the crux of his argument, it is as follows. “From the outset UNRWA was a political organization” (p. 307). Despite this fact I have displayed a “low level of political judgment” (p. 306) which has led me to focus neither on the decisions rendered by UNRWA's commissioner-general nor on the future impact of UNRWA and the ways in which it can contribute to stability in the Middle East. Presumably these latter two types of analysis would be “high-level political judgments” (p. 308).

Risk Reduction in Natural Disaster Management Through Information Systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guido Schryen ◽  
Felix Wex
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Natural Disaster Management

Natural disasters, including earthquakes, Tsunamis, floods, hurricanes, and volcanic eruptions, have caused tremendous harm and continue to threaten millions of humans and various infrastructure capabilities each year. In their efforts to take countermeasures against the threats posed by future natural disasters, the United Nations formulated the “Hyogo Framework for Action”, which aims at assessing and reducing risk. This framework and a global review of disaster reduction initiatives of the United Nations acknowledge the need for information systems research contributions in addressing major challenges of natural disaster management. In this paper, the authors provide a review of the literature with regard to how information systems research has addressed risk assessment and reduction in natural disaster management. Based on the review the authors identify research gaps that are centered around the need for acquiring general knowledge on how to design IS artifacts for risk assessment and reduction. In order to close these gaps in further research, the authors develop a research agenda that follows the IS design science paradigm.

The United Nations Disaster Relief Coordinator (UNDRO)

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (S1) ◽  
pp. 301-303
Author(s):  
Ilhan Lütem
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
International Community ◽  
Rapid Succession ◽  
The Real ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Right

In the late 1960's and early 1970's, several major disasters occurred in rapid succession. The most devastating of them was no doubt the earthquake in Peru in 1970, which claimed some 50,000 lives and caused untold damage and destruction in that country.Experience in these, and indeed in other disasters, made it clear that much of the generous aid provided by the international community in the wake of these disasters was, in the absence of co-ordination, often wasted or did not correspond to the real needs of victims. Enormous quantities of goods, some of them quite unsuitable, would pour in, together with countless well-meaning individuals wishing to help. Unfortunately, many of them were more hindrance than help. Obviously, some order had to be created to rectify this haphazard approach, and to ensure that relief supplies of the right kind and in appropriate quantities would reach the survivors rapidly to cover their basic and most urgent requirements during the emergency period.

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